Chicago’s migrant shelters will be shut down at the end of the year and absorbed into an existing system for homeless residents, Mayor Brandon Johnson said in a Monday announcement praising his administration for getting past an earlier humanitarian crisis while brushing off concerns of shrinking bed capacity that could lead to more people on the street.

Chicago's Mayor Johnson announced the One System Initiative, merging migrant and homeless programs by 2025, tightening shelter access for migrants.

It was arguably the biggest story in Chicago since COVID: the migrant crisis and the tens of thousands of asylum seekers relocated to Chicago, sent here by the Texas governor. The buses have largely stopped,

Mayor Brandon Johnson announced the city will start its transition this week to merge its two shelter systems, known as the One System Initiative.

The city of Chicago is shifting its shelter operations for non-citizen migrants to focus on all of the city’s unhoused residents. What to do with non-citizens already here is murky. More than 50,000 non-citizen migrants have arrived in Chicago from the southern U.